Riverside Architectural Press

Hylozoic Ground: Liminal Responsive Architecture
Philip Beesley. Edited by Pernilla Ohrstedt and Hayley Isaacs

The Hylozoic Ground experimental architecture series developed by architect Philip Beesley has been expanded and refined by researchers, engineers and designers from around the world. It is an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers, creating an environment can ‘feel’ and ‘care’. Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. The book contains essays by theorists and designers, extended photography, and detailed design documents of the evolving project. With contributions by Michelle Addington, Rachel Armstrong, William Elsworthy, Rob Gorbet, Eric Haldenby, Jonah Humphrey, Christian Joakim, Geoff Manaugh, Detlef Mertins, Neil Spiller, and Cary Wolfe. The Hylozoic Ground Project has been selected to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Biennale in Architecture. Previously announced as: Responsive Envelopes: Hylozoic Soil.

Riverside Architectural Press (August 2010) 196 pp col. ill. 9 x 7.5 in softcover 978-1-926724-02-7 $29.95 Can. $35.00 U.S. (24 euros)

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Kinetic Architectures and Geotextile Installations
Edited by Philip Beesley

This book documents architectural installations developed by Beesley and collaborators from 1995 through 2007. The collection includes architectural sculptures located in natural sites and works integrating kinetic components and interactive systems. Projects in the past several years have focused on immersive digitally fabricated lightweight ‘textile’ structures, and the most recent generations of his work feature responsive systems that use dense arrays of microprocessor, sensors and actuator systems. With contributions by Jean Gagnon, Eric Haldenby, Christine Macy, Andrew Payne, Robert Pepperell, Michael Stacey and Charles Stankievech.

Riverside Architectural Press (04/2010) 182 pp col. ill. 9 x 7.5 in softcover 978-0-9809856-9-6 $34.95 Can. $39.95 U.S. (28 euros)

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Twenty + Change 01: Emerging Toronto Design Practices
Edited by Heather Dubbeldam & Lola Sheppard


The first publication of a new series profiling emerging designers working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Projects by innovative Toronto designers rethink public and domestic space, new technology, and innovative materials and effects. Detailed projects and profiles on each designer are included. The collection is accompanied by essays by leading architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

Riverside Architectural Press (July 2009)
128 pp col. ill. 8.5 x 7 in softcover 978-1-926724-00-3 $20.00 Can. $22.00 U.S. (14 euros)

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Twenty + Change 02: Emerging Canadian Design Practices
Edited by Heather Dubbeldam & Lola Sheppard


Published simultaneously, this second book features emerging designers across Canada and displays the breadth of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design being produced by a new generation of Canadian innovators. Projects examine new models for public space and housing, and unique relationships between single-family houses and landscape. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full-colour images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

Riverside Architectural Press (July 2009)
136 pp col. ill. 8.5 x 7 in softcover 978-1-926724-01-0 $20.00 Can. $22.00 U.S. (14 euros)

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Ourtopias: Cities and the Role of Design
Edited by Paola Poletto, Philip Beesley, Catherine Molna

The essays in this book explore the varied and future states of cities and were developed at the Ourtopias conference at Toronto’s Design Exchange in 2007. City designers, architects and legislators offer a widely varying focus encompassing diverse public cultures and practical methods for transforming complex city forms. The word Ourtopia - our Utopia - conveys that the human experience cannot be removed from the city experience. Ten essays accompanied by numerous illustrations.

Riverside Architectural Press (2008)
130 pp col. ill. 9.5 x 7.5 softcover 978-0-9809856-0-3 $29.95 Can. $32.95 U.S. (21 euros)

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Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms
Edited by Martha Ladly and Philip Beesley

This collection of original essays by international scholars, researchers and industry experts explores the emerging field of mobile experience design. Discussions are wide-ranging, addressing technological issues, such as GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and intelligent materials and garments. Designers, engineers and creators write about the potential for mobile platforms in cultural industries, architecture, engineering, industrial design, entertainment and education. Forty texts accompanied by numerous illustrations.

Riverside Architectural Press (2008)
262 pp col. ill. 10 x 7 in hardcover 978-0-9780978-4-4 $44.95 Can. $47.95 U.S. (31 euros)

 

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North House / Maison du Nord: Team North Entry to the 2009 Solar Decathlon
Edited by Geoff Thun, Philip Beesley, Kathy Velikov, Robert Woodbury

This book documents the North House proposal for the 2009 Solar Decathlon from the pan-Canadian consortium of Waterloo, Simon Fraser and Ryerson universities. In the Solar Decathlon, teams of architects and engineers compete to build self-sufficient houses on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In English and French.

Riverside Architectural Press (2008)
92 pp col. ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-0-9780978-9-9 $14.95 Can. $16.95 U.S. (10 euros)

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Solar House / Maison Solaire: Team Montreal Entry to the 2007 Solar Decathlon
Edited by Hugues Rivard, Philip Beesley, Anna Rocki, Robert Woodbury.

This book documents the 2007 entry of Team Montreal, a consortium between l’École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), l’Université de Montréal faculté de l’aménagement, and the McGill University School of Architecture. Technical details, a discussion of strategies for sustainable building design today, and a survey of the competition entries are included. In English and French.

Riverside Architectural Press (2007)
120 pp col. ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-0-9780978-8-2 $14.95 Can. $16.95 U.S. (10 euros)

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The Inner Studio: A Designers Guide to the Resources of the Psyche
Andrew Levitt

Filled with examples and exercises, The Inner Studio guides readers into deeper levels of our imagination and decision making, focusing on the experience of the designer during the creative act of design. How do designers convert their subjective and often unconscious experience of the world into design? What are the creative consequences of what we may call designing from within?

Riverside Architectural Press (2007)
197 pp col. ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-09780978-1-3 $17.95 Can. $19.95 U.S. (12 euros)

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Future Wood: Innovation in Building Design and Manufacturing
Edited by Oliver Neumann and Philip Beesley

This book brings together international designers, manufacturers and researchers who examine natural and synthetic wood technologies.

Riverside Architectural Press (2007)
127 pp col. ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-0-9780978-2-0 $29.95 Can. $32.95 U.S. (21 euros )

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Responsive Architectures: Subtle Technologies
Edited by Philip Beesley, Sachiko Hirosue, Jim Ruxton, Marion Trankle and Camille Turner

The focus of this collection is on a new generation of interactive systems within science, art and architecture that are based on constantly evolving relationships. Using a wide definition of architecture that includes both built and natural realms, we examine dynamic systems and environments of scales from molecules to cities.

Riverside Architectural Press (2006)
239 pp col. ill. 9.5 x 8 in softcover 978-0-9780978-0-6 $34.95 Can. $37.95 U.S. (24 euros)

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Digital Fabricators
Michael Stacey

This book explores the revolutionary potential of three-dimensional modeling and automated fabrication to inform the built environment. The emphasis is on experiential and tactile architecture.

Riverside Architectural Press (2004)
96 pp col. ill. 11 x 8.5 in softcover 978-18970010-3-5 $19.95 Can. $21.95 U.S. (14 euros)

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